Primary exercises
- Manually created factor.
In a study participants were asked whether their sport activity is none, oncePerWeek, severalPerWeek or daily.
Build a proper factor for the responses below and store it in a variable w.
Print the factor.
Write the code to count the numbers of occurrences of each level and print the counts.
severalPerWeek, none, none, oncePerWeek, oncePerWeek, oncePerWeek, oncePerWeek, ?, none, none
v <- c( "severalPerWeek", "none", "none", "oncePerWeek", "oncePerWeek", "oncePerWeek", "oncePerWeek", NA, "none", "none" )
w <- factor( v, levels = c( "none", "oncePerWeek", "severalPerWeek", "daily" ) )
w
[1] severalPerWeek none none oncePerWeek oncePerWeek oncePerWeek
[7] oncePerWeek <NA> none none
Levels: none oncePerWeek severalPerWeek daily
fct_count( w )
# A tibble: 5 × 2
f n
<fct> <int>
1 none 4
2 oncePerWeek 4
3 severalPerWeek 1
4 daily 0
5 <NA> 1
- A factor with a random content.
Read help about the function sample.
Then study and try the following lines of code to understand the results.
Next, understand why an error is generated and use replace argument to generate a vector with 100 samples.
Store this vector in a variable v and build a factor w from it.
Finally, count the numbers of occurrences of each level in w.
Ensure, that levels are in order provided in the variable lvl.
lvs <- c( "none", "oncePerWeek", "severalPerWeek", "daily" )
sample( lvs, 3 )
[1] "none" "oncePerWeek" "daily"
sample( lvs, 3 )
[1] "none" "severalPerWeek" "oncePerWeek"
sample( lvs, 3 )
[1] "oncePerWeek" "none" "severalPerWeek"
sample( lvs, 100 )
Error in sample.int(length(x), size, replace, prob): cannot take a sample larger than the population when 'replace = FALSE'
v <- sample( lvs, 100, replace = TRUE )
w <- factor( v, levels = lvs )
w
[1] oncePerWeek none daily oncePerWeek oncePerWeek oncePerWeek
[7] daily oncePerWeek oncePerWeek none daily oncePerWeek
[13] none daily severalPerWeek none severalPerWeek severalPerWeek
[19] none oncePerWeek severalPerWeek none none none
[25] severalPerWeek none oncePerWeek severalPerWeek severalPerWeek none
[31] oncePerWeek severalPerWeek oncePerWeek daily daily daily
[37] oncePerWeek daily none none severalPerWeek none
[43] oncePerWeek daily daily none daily severalPerWeek
[49] none severalPerWeek severalPerWeek oncePerWeek daily oncePerWeek
[55] none none daily daily none oncePerWeek
[61] oncePerWeek oncePerWeek daily severalPerWeek oncePerWeek daily
[67] daily severalPerWeek daily severalPerWeek severalPerWeek daily
[73] daily severalPerWeek none daily severalPerWeek none
[79] oncePerWeek severalPerWeek daily daily daily none
[85] none oncePerWeek none severalPerWeek severalPerWeek oncePerWeek
[91] oncePerWeek daily none oncePerWeek oncePerWeek severalPerWeek
[97] oncePerWeek severalPerWeek oncePerWeek daily
Levels: none oncePerWeek severalPerWeek daily
fct_count( w )
# A tibble: 4 × 2
f n
<fct> <int>
1 none 24
2 oncePerWeek 27
3 severalPerWeek 23
4 daily 26
- Reordering factor levels.
When a factor is shown on an axis of a plot, the order is given by its levels.
The factor w from the previous exercise will be then shown in this order: none, oncePerWeek, severalPerWeek, daily.
But for a picture in a manuscript the following order might be needed: daily, severalPerWeek, oncePerWeek, none.
Apply to w one of the fct_ functions from the tidyverse library to produce a factor w2 with the requested order.
Show the levels of w2.
Again show the number of elements of each level in w2 and compare it with the table of the previous exercise.
w2 <- fct_relevel( w, c( "daily", "severalPerWeek", "oncePerWeek", "none" ) )
levels( w2 )
[1] "daily" "severalPerWeek" "oncePerWeek" "none"
fct_count( w2 )
# A tibble: 4 × 2
f n
<fct> <int>
1 daily 26
2 severalPerWeek 23
3 oncePerWeek 27
4 none 24